The Gardener's Color Palette: Paint Your Garden with 100 Extraordinary Flower Choices - Softcover

Fischer, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604690844 ISBN 13: 9781604690842

Publisher: Timber Press, 2010

Synopsis

Choosing color is one of the most delightful and personal choices a gardener makes. For one gardener, the shock of a garden full of pink and red is a picture of beauty. For another, white flowers may be more tranquilly inspiring.

The Gardener’s Color Palette features ten plants in ten color groups and offers gardeners hundreds of opportunities to mix and match. Want a red garden? Choose the ‘Crimson Star’ columbine, the ‘Lucifer’ crocosmia, and the ‘Gardenview Scarlet’ bee balm. For a metallic garden plant the Japanese cobra lily, the Chocolate cosmos, and the Kamchatka fritillary. Or, create a multicolored array by picking plants from each category. Plant profiles include a description, the common and botanical names, information about expected height and spread, bloom time, hardiness, and light and water requirements.

Combined with Clive Nichols’ stunning photographs, The Gardener’s Color Palette is an invaluable source of practical advice and visual inspiration.

About this title

About the Author

Tom Fischer is senior acquisitions editor at Timber Press. He previously worked at University of Chicago Press, Beacon Press, and Horticulture magazine. Fischer has been featured in Garden Design, Gardens Illustrated, Martha Stewart Living, and the Oregonian. He served as a horticultural consultant for Allied Works Architecture developing the planting design implemented at the new Sokol Blosser winery tasting room. You can read more on his website, overplanted.com.

From Booklist

Fischer’s handbook singles out 100 flowers to consider when the focus turns to colorful blooms for the garden. Icons indicate water and light requirements at a glance. And each entry merits an alluring plant portrait by photographer Nichols, while Fischer provides botanical pronunciation along with fundamental details, such as size of plants at maturity, bloom time, hardiness zones, and personal recommendations for the most desirable varieties. It’s Fischer’s enthusiasm for flora that shines through, enlivening his introductions to color categories and the brief descriptive paragraphs accompanying each plant. Whether he’s suggesting eye-catching plant pairings or offering cautionary advice about aggressive spreaders, Fischer will inspire gardeners to think about incorporating selections from the book’s outstanding bevy of perennials, bulbs and shrubs, and native and tender species. --Alice Joyce

About this edition

• Publisher: Timber Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1604690844
• ISBN 13: 9781604690842
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236